The biggest annual music event in Greece, the MAD Video Music Awards took place on 27 June at the Tae Kwo Do court in Palaio Faliro, Athens.
Since 2004, the show has become an annual event by the MAD TV Greek music station and each year it sees glorious performances by some of the most well-known Greek artists.
2017 Greek Eurovision representative Demy appeared twice on stage; to perform her brand new single M’ekdikeise and then a remix of Ed Sheeran’s smash hit Shape of you, along with Antonis Remos, who mixed in his hit single, Lene. Demy also received the award of the Video of the Year for the 2017 Greek entry This is love.
2005 Eurovision winner Helena Paparizou made three appearances on stage and received the award of Best Modern Female. Alongside Tamta, she performed the duet Tora E Pote, the Greek version of the Italian song Ora O Mai Piú. She later performed her new singles Haide and An Me Deis Na Klaio with Anastasios Rammos.
Apart from her duet with Helena Paparizou, Tamta also performed her new single by Dimitris Kontopoulos, Ilious Kai Thalasses in a special remix for the show.
The very popular Eleni Foureira performed a new version of the 2000 hit To Kati, originally released by Kaiti Garbi. The singer received two awards; Best Dance Video for her song Ti Koitas and Best Video with a Cause for the song Ti Sou Hrostao Agapi
Boyband Melisses gave another impressive performance of their big ballad hit To Kyma, in collaboration with Mpampis Stokas, lead vocalist of rock band Pyx Lax. They also scooped two awards; Best Ballad Video for To Kyma as well as being proclaimed Best Band.
A guest of the 2017 event was the 2017 Bulgarian Eurovision entrant Kristian Kostov, who performed his entry Beautiful Mess in a MAD VMA ‘17 version with hip hop singer SNIK.
Other singers at the event included Konstantinos Argyros who performed his brand new single Ximeromata, Petros Iacovides, Naya, Eirini Papadopoulou, Onirama, Playmen and others.
Pantelis Pantelides was honoured with a posthumous award for his single Thimame; his brother Triantafyllos accepted the accolade on the late singer’s behalf.
